Volvo's New EX60 Faces Major Production Delays, Leaving US Buyers Waiting

Slow output at Volvo's Torslanda plant leaves the EX60 scarce in the US until 2027, despite no reported concerns about safety, quality, or performance.

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By: Brian Potter

Oct 15, at 2:52am ET

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Volvo has started building the EX60 at its Torslanda plant in Sweden, but the electric SUV is barely trickling into US showrooms. The automaker's reported output sits at 200 vehicles per week, a fraction of the original plan.

Dealers who expected meaningful inventory this year are being told to wait. Early units have landed stateside, but Volvo has reportedly warned its US retail network that real volume will not show up until well into 2027.

US Deliveries Will Remain Limited

2026 Volvo EX60

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Volvo reportedly aimed to build around 2,000 EX60s per week when it kicked off series production at the upgraded Torslanda factory in late April. That target would have supported an initial US first-year goal of 7,000 vehicles, according to dealer guidance cited by Automotive News.

Reality has fallen far short. Output has reportedly run at roughly a tenth of the original pace leaving US dealers with only a handful of vehicles to sell while demand for the SUV builds.

Volvo spokesperson Jacquelyn Johnson said short-term supply would stay limited and that many vehicles already allocated to US dealers are expected to arrive early in 2027. That is a notably softer timeline than the thousands of vehicles buyers were promised for this year.

The EX60 carries real weight for Volvo's American ambitions. It is central to the brand's push toward 200,000 annual US retail sales by 2030, a goal that gets harder to hit every month the SUV stays scarce on dealer lots.

Gallery: Start of Production for the Volvo EX60

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Production Faces Reported Battery And Motor Issues

Industry reporting traces the bottleneck to problems integrating the high-voltage battery pack with the body and to electric-motor production at Torslanda. Volvo has not disclosed a detailed technical root cause for the slowdown.

The EX60 is also Volvo's first model built on its new megacasting architecture, which uses a single large casting for the floor structure produced in-house at the plant. New tooling on this scale often runs rough in its first months, and that appears to be playing out here.

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Nothing in the reporting ties the slowdown to safety or quality concerns with the EX60 itself. The issue is getting battery packs and motors built and matched to the car at the volume Volvo originally planned.

Volvo dealers should expect the trickle to continue through the first half of 2027, with meaningful supply only in the back half of that year. The EX60 now has to carry more of the electric load in the US as the EX40 stays on sale as a 2026 model but is slated to leave the market after this generation.